Innovation, Profit and the Common Good in Higher Education: The New Alchemy
β Scribed by John Harpur (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 321
- Series
- Issues in Higher Education
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Prolegomenon....Pages 1-33
Shopping in the Aula Maxima....Pages 34-51
Atlantic Mouse Becomes Celtic Tiger....Pages 52-109
Science and Universities: Shilling for a Living?....Pages 110-163
Firing up the New Alchemy β the Furnace of Innovation....Pages 164-209
Secrets β the Future of the Future University....Pages 210-243
Back Matter....Pages 244-310
β¦ Subjects
Sociology of Education; Sociology of Education; Higher Education; Structural Geology; Education Policy; Sociology, general
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